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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain is a member of the European Union since 1 January 1973. It is located in the north-western coast of the European mainland. It includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland.

Capital

London

Population

61 million

Area

Law enforcement agencies

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)

HMRC is a UK Law Enforcement Agency that has the overall responsibility for collecting the money that pays for the UK’s public services and helping families and individuals with targeted financial support. Areas of responsibility include both Income and Corporation Tax, Excise duties, Customs duties, VAT, Environmental taxes, Tax and child benefits, administering anti-money laundering registrations for money service businesses, and Trade Statistics. HMRC have the responsibility for investigating serious and organised fiscal crime. In 2015-16 HMRC collected £536.8bn in total tax revenue- £26.6bn of which was secured through their enforcement and compliance efforts.

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Immigration Enforcement

The Risk and Liaison Overseas Network (RALON) form part of the Immigration Enforcement arm of the Home Office within Immigration Intelligence, with staff deployed to approximately 50 locations across the world.
Immigration Enforcement staff are based within Europol, are at the forefront of helping to deliver Home Office key crime objectives to disrupt organised immigration crime affecting the UK, by promoting Europol engagement to UK investigations and identifying parallel investigations with European Union partners that could lead to successful prosecutions or disruptions in the UK.

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Police Forces in England and Wales

There are about 127,00 police officers working within the 43 police forces of England and Wales. The Metropolitan Police Service (London) have a Liaison officer within the UK Bureau at Europol. Remaining police forces can access Europol through the network of Regional Organised Crime Units (ROCU) and also have the benefit of a Liaison officer at Europol.

Police Scotland

Police Scotland was formally established on 1 April 2013 and is responsible for policing across the length and breadth of Scotland, some 28,168 square miles. Police Scotland’s purpose is to improve the safety and wellbeing of people, places and communities in Scotland. Our focus is on Keeping People Safe which is at the heart of everything that we do.
Our priorities focus on reducing violence, disorder and antisocial behaviour; reducing deaths and injuries on the roads while reducing the opportunity for criminal use of the road; protecting those most at risk of harm in our communities; tackling the causes and effects of serious organised crime; and countering terrorism.
Chief Constable Phil Gormley, QPM

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The National Crime Agency (NCA)

The National Crime Agency (NCA) leads UK law enforcement's fight to cut serious and organised crime. We have national and international reach and the mandate and powers to work in partnership with other law enforcement organisations to bring the full weight of the law to bear on serious and organised criminals.
The UK’s Europol National Unit and the UK Liaison Bureau, based within Europol HQ, are part of the NCA’s International Department. Both sit alongside the UK’s INTERPOL Bureau, European Schengen Information System (SIRENE) Bureau and the NCA’s extensive international liaison officer network.
UK Law Enforcement’s Europol engagement is managed by the NCA’s Europol National Unit.